Why We Built an Open-source Virtual Feature Store? Learnings from Serving 100M Monthly Active Users

Name: Why We Built an Open-source Virtual Feature Store? Learnings from Serving 100M Monthly Active Users
Uploaded: 2023-05-26

Posted May 26, 2023 | Views 358

# Open-source

# Feature Store

# Featureform

# featureform.com

SPEAKER

Simba Khadder

Founder & CEO @ Featureform

Simba Khadder is the Founder & CEO of Featureform. After leaving Google, Simba founded his first company, TritonML. His startup grew quickly and Simba and his team built ML infrastructure that handled over 100M monthly active users. He instilled his learnings into Featureform’s virtual feature store. Featureform turns your existing infrastructure into a Feature Store. He’s also an avid surfer, a mixed martial artist, a published astrophysicist for his work on finding Planet 9, and he ran the SF marathon in basketball shoes.

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SUMMARY

Simba Khadder shares his insights during a talk at the MLOps Meetup in San Francisco, highlighting their experience with 100 million monthly active users. They discussed their failures and learnings, primarily focusing on building a recommended system. By utilizing embeddings, they generated candidate song recommendations and refined the rankings. Simba emphasized the significance of resolving workflow challenges to enhance the effectiveness of data scientists. They introduced the concept of a feature store, which revolutionized their approach to data science.

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